Reference point losing it's position when Batching

[Miłosz5F84]

Earlier, when I was working with Batch, I was able to select a reference point and anchor it in the desired position for every photo. For example, when transforming portraits, before starting the batch process, I would navigate to my actions, double-click on "Transform layer," select my reference point, and position it on the subject's eye. This allowed me to consistently transform from that specific point. However, now, even if I place the reference point where I want it to be, when I process with batch, the reference point ends up in a completely random location, often in the upper left corner of the photo or within the Photoshop application itself.

Please help. Is it some hidden option? It's happened overnight, I do not remeber changing any settings (but it's still an option :v) 

[Davide_Barranca]

It might very well be totally unrelated to your problem, but have you tried switching the Rulers to Percentage?

[Miłosz5F84]

Hello Davide, and thank you for your response. I attempted to change it to a percentage, but the issue still persists.

Here's a video illustrating the problem. Perhaps it will provide a better understanding of my situation.

[Davide_Barranca]

Hi @Miłosz5F84 ,

I've tried to replicate it on my machine (Adobe Photoshop Version: 25.6.0 20240312.r.433 2bfcbf1 arm64), see the screencast attached—I was using pixels as the units in the rulers.

It seems to work as expected: double-clicking the Action does set the reference point back where I put it while recording it. However, in the second part of the video, you see that I'm enlarging the canvas: the action uses the measurement as absolute (referring to the whole image) and not relative to the transformed layer.

This may be a problem if the pictures you're batching have different dimensions.

[Davide_Barranca]

I forgot to expand the action in the recording, see below that the ref point is ~700px on the X axis and ~170px on the Y, which is exactly where it's put when running the action with the extended canvas.

[Miłosz5F84]

As you can observe in my video, the "Position" value changes spontaneously when I try to execute this action during a Batch. Therefore, it has nothing to do with altering the resolution or size of the image. It consistently selects values near the left-upper corner of the image.

[Davide_Barranca]

Yes, I have seen the behaviour in your recording. Mine was meant to show that I haven't been able to replicate, and additionally that the reference point is recorded as an absolute value in the document's coordinates. 

Is your PS version different than mine? I should be running the latest release available.

[Miłosz5F84]

I must have changed the rulers from px to cm one day, and I didn't correlate it with this issue. Your advice to change the rulers to percentage didn't help, hence changing it to pixels solved this problem. Now my reference point stays where I put it.

Thank you for your time and replies!

[Davide_Barranca]

Nice to know it's been solved 🙂

So, to be clear: the ref point stays where it is supposed to be only when the rulers are set to pixels, is that right? Thanks,

[Miłosz5F84]

For my case it is, yes.

[Davide_Barranca]

I've raised this internally—can't say when or if it'll be fixed, but they're aware now 🙂